Busy, busy as a bumble bee!

We have been very busy lately and trying to keep active during these cold days. Which is hard to do when you have a VERY active 1 1/2 year old that just wants to run around outside and could do so for hours and hours. Here are some activities that we have been doing:

Open Gym at the Lawrence Gymnastic Academy. He absolutely loved this and didn't stop moving once until I put him in the car!

We have gone to the KC mall twice to play and that is pure entertainment because there are so many other kids there that he can keep his eyes on. This is his favorite car, the blue, convertible BMW. Better not be sign for what he is going to "want" in 15 years!
Today we went to Story Time at the library for the first time. He clapped at all the right times, listened pretty intently at the books being read. But again, was more entertained by all the kiddos there. We will definitely put this on our calenders for future Wednesday mornings!

About once a week we have been going up to the McDonald's by our house which just built a new "playground". We go with our friends Kyly and Anderson (14 months) and the boys play and mommy and Kyly get grown-up time - or as much grown up time you can get in a McDonald's play area!

Anderson and Cohen have become pretty good friends considering they get together and play about 2 or 3 times a week. Here is Cohen and his buddy!
Cohen has been "talking" a lot more. He will walk around the house and just chit chat - obviously I have no idea what he is saying even though with him I pretend I do. Sometimes it is into a "phone" (which could be a calculator, lego, remote, etc) or just at Naismith or at me or the tv. Mike and I just look at each other in amazement at how much he is developing every week.

He got his first middle molar this last weekend (January 23/24, 2010) and wow, it is a sharp little sucker. That is the first tooth to make an appearance since July! I have a feeling the others will start popping through now. He has a total of 7 now (4 top front, 2 bottom front, and the new molar).

Christmas 2009 And New Years 2010

We had a very busy December and made the long drive to Colorado for Christmas. Cohen did well in the car (considering the circumstances) and ate lots of snacks, watched movies, and listened to the same CD over and over again . . . drove mom and dad nuts!! We arrived, settled in and then had Katy, Madison, and Chayse arrive! Cohen was infatuated with Madison - following her around, hanging on every word she said, and doing everything that she was doing. They spent many hours going up and down the slide!
Monday evening my brother, Tim, and his wife arrived for a few days. They shared with us their VERY exciting news of expecting their own little bundle of joy in June. We are SO excited for you Tim and Kinzie. While they were in CO, we did a Cogswell Cousin night out - which consisted of dinner and drinks with our spouses and without any of our kids or our parents. Hoping to make this a year ritual to do at some point each year! Here is all of us at dinner:

Christmas Eve was spent at my aunts house with many, many Cogswells! Cohen did great! Played non-stop. Here he is in his Christmas Eve attire:


Christmas morning was a hoot! Cohen got into it much more than I thought he would. He would slowly rip open presents and then want to play with whatever toy was discovered!
We piled in the car the weekend after Christmas and made out drive home. Very similar to the drive out there, but once we arrived in Lawrence we were met with TONS of snow and 5 foot snow drifts . . . including in our driveway which was left unattended for a week.

Once we got settled in back home poor Cohen got hit with the stomach flu on the 30th. Then I got nailed with it on the 1st and Mike later that evening. So needless to say, the last few days of 2009 and the first few days of 2010 were no fun at all.

Here is a fun video of Cohen during dinner time "speaking" all that he has learned!
Signing Video

And another funny one of him and Sydney playing "Ring Around The Rosey". Sorry, the video is sideways . . . I always forget that I can't put that camera that way when doing video!!
Ring Around The Rosey Video

And one more . . . Aunt Kelcey and family got him this AWESOME vacuum. He is obsessed with it. This is his first time playing with it.
Vacuuming Video


** Sorry for not having the videos directly on the blog . . . I seem to be having technical difficulties and they take FOREVER to load on there! **